General Chat

I think its something that I hit by mistake somewhere at the bottom of the keyboard.

I wonder if you have something in your tyre and that it just happened to be parked on the punchture and thats why it did'nt lose any air over night?

Still got the broody and when I left them after faffing around out there I looked up and only had three hens in the run. I looked in the nest box and there were three hens in there, a black one and two white ones. Only had to turf her off one egg this morning so I am expecting two more today.

Vera could a valve have become loose and leaked air which was tightened after the last time OH pumped it up? As you say a mystery.

I have had a lazy morning sitting watching the Kings birthday parade. I love tha pageantry and the guards are great to watch. It was good too to see The Princess of Wales in a carriage with the children

Morning all

13 degrees and windy but it doesn't feel all that cold. Rain is forecast and it is just spit-spotting now. OH decided that if he waits for 2 or 3 dry days all the paving will never get cleaned so he has made a start this morning and will work till the rain starts to come down harder. The machine uses a fair bit of electric power and probably quite a bit of water but if we get someone in to do it they are still using our power and water. The year before OH bought this machine we paid a company £400 to do it. That was probably 2019 or 2020 and the job they did was OK but no better than the result OH gets.

There's something odd about our "puncture". OH only drove about 3 miles yesterday and the tyre was OK when he left home. 4 of us saw it parked on our friend's drive with a flat tyre. OH pumped it up to get us home and put it in the garage. First thing this morning he went out to pump it up again to get him to the tyre centre and found it hadn't gone down at all. So he is going to check it again later We are a bit puzzled. If it isn't a puncture what made it lose so much air parked for 2 hours on our friend's drive?. If it is a puncture why hasn't it lost any air over 14 hours in our garage?

Mel, it's worth trying your other keyboard as AnnG says though I'm not 100% convinced it's that unless it has a delete button that somehow gets stuck. I've noticed that when you lose a post it is often deleted from part way through a word. This suggests to me that your cursor is in that position and somehow or other you accidentally hit a key that deletes everything behind the cursor. Can you remember at all what you are doing immediately before you lost the post? It's a puzzle, isn't it and very frustrating for you.

It's gone very quiet so I think OH might have given up for today. I'd better go and make my worker a cup of coffee.

Morning all,

Bright morning but windy and we've had rain pc is saying 14 degrees and partly sunny so I expect more heavy rain during the day so another day not in the garden.

Just have the shop to do this morning and I don't think BIL will come today as he could'nt mow as its so wet. I have had 4" in my wheelbarrow twice and the rian has filled the big pond up well over the last day and a bit.

I bet the big trailer out the back full of weeds also has a lot of water in it so thats not going to burn up quickly.

I lost my old brown chicken the other day she must have been at least 6 years old if not more so I am down to 6 now and one of the black ones has dropsy but she is still eating and getting around so she can live her life out here where she was happy.

I am going to post this before it disappears again.

Thank you for the photos, Ann. What a lovely range of colours in your garden. It's looking good after all your hard work.
I love the curved paths leading on to the next area...

Really dull here with thundery showers forecast, but the sun is making a valiant attempt to put in an appearance first. :-)

I guess you still have not changed the keyboard Mel?

Pouring with rain here at the moment.

nd I bet the big trailer is full of water as well as weeds

Lost the lot again...............................

Good morning all, 9 degrees here but it is still very early, I got up at 0615 as my leg is worse if I lay too long after waking up. Slept reasonably well although woke twice.
Nothing planned for today so just a bit of pottering. Tesco due this afternoon. I will see how my leg is and may manage a short walk to Irene's to return books.

Vera, pleased that you enjoyed your lunch I love fish and chips when it is well cooked.
When your OH gets a puncture has he actually driven in the same area as he has got them before? I ask because my friend had a problem with punctures, three times in a row and she worked out she was driving locally past where builders were renovating a house. Seems there were nails etc in the road. Or it could be pot holes I suppose causing them. A real nuisance.
Strange you should say about noise on Sundays, I don't think everyone bothers about it these days but we were always careful about not making too much loud noise on Sundays (drilling etc), It was how we were brought up. Also not doing anything noisy before about 9am.

Glad you all liked the photos. Strange I still look out and see a garden that is not up to T's standards. But those standards were achieved by both of us I suppose and he spent hours and hours out there. Since all the work done by Jake and Rory it is definitely a garden needing less maintenance thanks goodness and it is only my leg that holds me back a bit not wanting to put strain on it.

Got all the pics Anng and I must say your garden is a credit to you it looks really lovely. Wish my garden looked as good. I hav'nt touched the border this year and it really needs a lot of work done on it. My roses are flowering on the wall but so are the brimbles.

Well I think we had 93% rain today and not sun as the pc said and its still raining now. I meant to over my strawberry plants with some polythene to keep the rain off but I did'nt get a chance to get any on them. The rain always ruins them and they are just getting ripe now. I have had two pickings off of them already this year which is much better than last year.

I can't believe its Friday already and now its another weekend. Why does May and June go so quickly? Its only two weeks till Midsummer day, Di birthday.

Thank you AnnG; I've received all the photos. You have a lot of plants in bloom and they all look healthy. Your garden is looking lovely, better than mine and a great deal tidier and that's down to all your hard work out there, so well done you.

There were 6 of us at our lunch. There should have been 7 but one had a tooth problem and was at the dentists. There used to be 11 or 12 of us but the years have taken their toll and a couple have died and two now have quite severe dementia. However we had a very nice day. I'm not a great fan of battered fish and chips but we saw some being taken to another table and it looked so good that 4 of us chose it. It was very tasty with a nice, crisp batter and delicious chunky chips. Knowing we would be having cakes later I didn't have a dessert but a couple of them had cherry pie and custard and you could see that the pie had been hand made there. Afterwards we went back to the birthday girl's house and spent a couple of hours chatting and enjoying our cake.

OH seems to have picked up another puncture this afternoon so in the morning he will have to pump it up enough to get him to the tyre place and get yet another new tyre. That will be the 3rd time it has happened in recent months and new tyres don't come cheap so he isn't a happy bunny.

Someone will be pleased they have got a free scooter Mandy and you are doing others a good turn by putting stuff out for them to take.

Although showers were forecast the rain has mostly held off today. OH had planned tomorrow to start cleaning all the paving round the house but there's rain forecast again and, as he's going to have to get the car sorted first, I don't think he'll get any done. Sunday is supposed to be better weather but the machine makes a bit of noise and I don't like disturbing people on a Sunday.

I've got a couple of emails to answer so I'll get on with those next. Have a good night everyone.

Pleased you got them Mandy.

Thank you Ann I got them all ,your garden is looking really good, pretty roses and your Lavender is doing well, well everything is ,I love the poppy ,my yellow poppies are out and the orange ones but I'm waiting for the pinky red ones to open up.

The scooter has gone so thats good I didn't put anything else out as the sky has looked so black all day and this afternoon we had thunder and lightning, I had just got some cakes in the oven so I had my fingers crossed we didn't lose the electric .
I've made son and dil some coconut tarts and some Welsh cakes .

Hope you've enjoyed the birthday lunch Vera what did you have to eat .

Ann we've had our heating on too a few times lately, I've never known it to be so chilly like this in June ,I have to say today has felt a little warmer ,we did a few jobs in the garden this morning and I had a jacket on but the sun peeped through a few times not for long but when it did I had to take my jacket off .
We had some runner bean plants left over from the ones we planted a few weeks ago and they were just laying out in the pots so we filled a couple of tubs and used them up they might give us a few extra beans .

Hopefully you should be getting some garden photos. let me know if nothing arrives.

sun is out here at the mement. I nipped out and planted the courgette plant in my planter. Now going to have to watch for snails/slugs I suppose. Also potted on the Tithonia as I need to clear a space for it in the garden.

Forgot to post that last post and now it is thundering down so very hard. What happened about the 93% sunshine? :-(

Morning everyone,

Quite bright here this morning at the moment but there are grey clouds in the sky and pc says 14 degrees and sunny 93% so that will be nie if I can get out there today to do a bit more.

Yes go for it Mandy two scooters and a dogs bed will give you lots of room in the shed. Good luck.

Have a lovely friends birthday out Vera and enjoy the tea and cakes and chat afterwards. Hope the weathers good for it.

Well I better get on as I hav'nt done anything but wash this morning so far. I need to get the washing machine going too so I have another pile of ironing to do as if its not big enough now.

Anng we have a two scooters to go out and I might put the dogs bed out that we had for Bonnie our first dog ,it's one of those hard plastic ones ,I don't put to much out at a time because if it rains I have to haul it all back in .

Morning Vera / Anng ,morning all,

Enjoy your lunch and tea and cakes today Vera sounds as if you'll have a nice rest from sorting cupboards .

Very overcast here and we should have showers through the day so not sure if we'll get any outside jobs done .
I think I might do some more baking for the family .

Has anyone been watching The Hidden Treasures of the National Trust on bbc 2 at nine o'clock i only noticed it in the tele book today and its the last one tonight but it sounds good ,it caught my eye as its from Qxburgh Hall in Norfolk where a rats nest holds clothing fragments centuries old .

good morning all. wet but 11 degrees here. No gardening, unless there is a dry gap when I can get out to plant the courgette. As it is already flowering I don't want to wait too long.
Enjoy your lunch and tea and cakes afterwards Vera. That is such a nice tradition that you have.
I slept well last night, only got up once to ease my leg and visit the loo. slept from 11 to 0400, lay awake for a while and the next I knew it was 0715.

Ann, that is a nuisance about the wall not being fiished. Has the neighbour said anything about the reason? Maybe the builder or his family are unwell. Hope he returns soon.
And the other neighbour should know better that they should not be painting your fence without mentioning it.

I am lucky with my neighbours, except I do worry about Mac next door, he is friendly but very independent. I don't know how old he is but am guessing about 86/7. Very unsteady on his feet but still walks to local Tesco with his shopping trolley and the day before yesterday he was out the front in shorts (never seen him in shorts before) weeding the garden. He is scots and I have trouble understanding him but I think he said he was doing it to fill the brown bin. He does have a man come to cut the lawns. His wife was 85 when she died and not many days before that she was painting the fence round their garden. She always did it and it has not been done since she died. (about 2018/19). She was older than Mac.

Well done Mandy for finding homes for those things. What is next?